v31_0509 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très fin, ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait inhabituel. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. A conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus radié à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTV-S AVG// XXIA.
Reverse description : L'empereur debout à droite, tenant un globe de la main gauche et une haste transversale de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Rubans de type 3.
Historical background
PROBUS
(06-07/276-09/282)
Probus was born on August 19, 232 in Sirmium. He led a brilliant military career during the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. Commander of the army of the East on the death of Tacitus, he was immediately proclaimed emperor and easily triumphed over Florian, who was assassinated. The situation is serious. The Rhine-Danubian limes gave way under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restores peace in Gaul, in Germania then in Rhaetia where he inflicts a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples, in Thrace where he crushes the Sarmatians and the Scythians, in Asia Minor which he cleans of looters and Pamphylian pirates, finally in Africa where he ends the incursions of the Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II, Sassanid monarch. He must face the usurpations of Saturnin, Bonose and Proculus. Probus, having triumphed over all his adversaries, returned to Rome in 281 and celebrated his victories. Before preparing a new expedition against the Sassanids, he fell under the blows of his own soldiers at Sirmium in 282.
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